On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-10-05 18:08, Harvey Greenberg wrote:
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> > I am looping as for L in file.readlines(), where file is csv.
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> > L is a list of 3 items, eg, [{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10] Note that
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> > the first item is a dir and 2nd is a list, so parsing with split
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> > doesn't work. Is there a way to convert L, which is a string, to
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> > the list of 3 items I want?
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> sounds like you want ast.literal_eval():
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> Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14)
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> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
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> >>> s = "[{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10]"
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> >>> import ast
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> >>> print repr(ast.literal_eval(s))
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> [{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, [1, 2, 3], 10]
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> -tkc
that didn't work. printing it looks like the list because it's the input, but
try printing len(repr(ast.literal_eval(s))). It should give 3, but it gives 72
(number of chars).
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